Non-Fiction Book Club - April 2026
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Join us for our monthly non-fiction book club, where we read and discuss titles from across the non- fiction spectrum.🗓️ Thursday 23rd April
🕒 Doors open 5:30pm for a 6pm start
📍 The Lane Bookshop
🎫 Tickets: $5 including wine and nibbles
In April, we'll be discussing Looking From The North by Henry Reynolds.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Henry Reynolds’ ground-breaking re-examination of Australian colonisation from the north down.
When acclaimed historian Henry Reynolds moved from Hobart to Townsville to teach Australian history in the 1960s, he discovered the books of the period covered very little about northern Australia and First Nations peoples. He set out to help remedy the situation and ended up transforming Australian history in ways he could never have imagined.
In Looking from the North, Reynolds again turns Australian history on its axis with an exploration of colonisation north of the Tropic of Capricorn. Reynolds tells the stories of the European, Chinese, Japanese and Pacific Islander people who were vital to the settlement of the north. Along with the experience of First Nations peoples, from employment on stations and as native police to the land rights and homelands movements, Reynolds shows how the colonisation of the north, officially beginning in 1861, was a very different venture to settlement in the south. He argues that it provides profoundly important lessons for the world we live in today.
Date
Thursday 23 April 2026 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (UTC+08)Location
The Lane Bookshop
52C Old Theatre Lane, CLAREMONT WA 6010
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Non-Fiction Book Club - April 2026
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